anyone have the ratios on a 61 lancer steering gear . car has manual steering..............steve

The 61 still has the Saginaw box and should be a 20:1 ratio.
HyperValiant

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1960 Hyper-Pac Valiant(rolling test-bed)
1963 Valiant V2OO(Son's summer project,- he just turned 15 )
1972 Valiant 4dr(Daughter Kelly's repair in progress)
1974 Valiant (v8) daughter Kelly's work in progress

Yep, 20:1 on the '60-'61 A-bodies. That is 4½ turns lock-to-lock.

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一期一会
Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

So why did they change from a good 20:1 ratio to a poor 24:1 ?

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Ed
64 Valiant 225 / 904 / 42:1 manual steering / 9" drum brakes

My best guess would be so they could use one steering box in all cars big and small. C-bodies and B vans got a heavier duty box though.

Since vans and cars share steering boxes I put a '78 Dodge B-body power steering box in my '72 B300. The manual steering in the van wasn't too bad until you had to back up a trailer. It was my tow rig so I gave it power steering.

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Joshua

thnx hyper and dan, that would explain why it steers better than my manual 63 valiant(24:1) did ......................ss